Hi there,

as I today spot checked the online locks of my DVDs and found only 2 or 3 in my collection, I wonder if the feature still is in our mind? I admit, I forgot it for a while... 
Anybody still using it?

I almost wish there was a check-box to submit locks or not, as with Birth Years. I lock down my entire collection, and it's somewhat a pain unlocking a profile to submit, and then relocking it afterwards (for local purposes) again.

i think the general consensus on this was to lock them if a ping/pong situation occurs - w/o that.... just leave be

Quoting Katatonia:

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So it is okay then to contribute even when you have the entire profile locked locally?

It is possible possible.

Of course, your contribution must adhere to the Rules (which I know your contributions do), which is what the warning is for to remind you of; usually people lock items that are not set up according to the Rules....

Quoting detlefs:

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Hi there,

as I today spot checked the online locks of my DVDs and found only 2 or 3 in my collection, I wonder if the feature still is in our mind? I admit, I forgot it for a while... 
Anybody still using it?

I was really glad when Ken implemented the online locks, and I used them frequently at the beginning. Back then I even founded a German work group of Profiler users to lock profiles that were constantly overwritten by newbies or, even worse, by users trying to impose their own will on the database. That was about half a year before the German profiler forum was created - ah, the good old times...  .

However, since then the Profile's conditions have improved dramatically because of the voting system and because some "Überusers" are not active anymore. So I haven't used the online lock system for nearly two years now.

Put a lock on the quote button, Tigi...

Since the implementation of partial contributions, the online locks are only necessary in extreme cases, I think.